WHY GIVEN EXISTS

Software you own. That's the whole idea.

Given builds the operating layer for trades and field-service businesses — estimating, scheduling, job dashboards — from Wilmore, Kentucky. Churches, nonprofits, and small shops get the same deal. You tell us what you wish existed. We build it. You pay once, and the finished tool is yours forever. No subscription. No monthly fee. No fine print that says otherwise.

WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE 01 / 04
The Friday ritual There's a thing you retype, re-copy, or rebuild every single week. We turn it into a button. You press the button.
The $89-a-month app You use maybe a tenth of it, and it bills you every month anyway. We build the tenth you actually use, once. The bill stops.
A real one A Lexington contractor was running jobs on paper bid sheets and memory. Now their crew fills out an iPad form on site, their customers get instant estimates from their website, and the whole team starts the day on one company hub. They own every piece of it — if we disappeared tomorrow, all of it keeps working. Read the full case.
THE GAP WE FILL 02 / 04

Small organizations get four bad options. We're the fifth.

Software subscriptions Rent a 70% fit forever, and work around it forever. Given: own a 100% fit, once.
Agencies & dev shops $20,000 to start, months of meetings, an account manager between you and the person building. Given: from $350, weeks not months, and the builder is at your table.
"AI automation" consultants Bolt AI onto everything and keep the retainer running. Given: same AI skill, no retainer — you end up owning the tool and running it without us.
Doing nothing The business keeps running on scattered files and one person's memory. Given: systems instead of memory.
WHAT WE BELIEVE 03 / 04

The best tools you'll ever use are the ones you own.

Your truck, your table saw, your building. Your software should work the same way: bought once, yours to keep, yours to change. Every account, file, and line of code ends up in your name.

AI is a power tool — not a landlord.

AI is how one builder works at the speed of a team, which is why our prices look the way they do. Usually it stays under the hood at build time and never shows up in the finished tool. But if you want AI inside what you own — and plenty of good ideas need it — we build that too: on your own account and your own key, so you control it, you can switch it off, and it keeps working without us. The difference isn't whether there's AI. It's who's holding the keys at the end.

Boring technology is a feature.

Your tools get built on plain web pages, scripts, and spreadsheets — the quiet stuff that's run the world for decades and doesn't change under your feet. Software that works the same way tomorrow as it did today.

You talk to the person who builds your thing.

Given is one builder in Wilmore, Kentucky. No account managers, no ticket queues. The person who hears your dream at the table is the person who builds it and the person who hands you the keys.

THE PART THAT NEVER BENDS 04 / 04
The first conversationFree, at your table
What you payOnce, per project
What you ownEverything
Monthly feesZero
If something breaks laterFlat-fee visit, no strings
Who you'll talk toThe builder. Every time.